Jynxzi

Jynxzi is, upon first glance, a very typical gamer dude. He rages, he screams, he salivates over e-girls—what does he provide that can’t be found a million other places on the internet? But if you watch enough Jynxzi (and I, a 33-year-old woman, do), you’ll see the layers of comedy at play. Not only has he adopted a strange speech pattern that requires him to needlessly roll letters that don’t require rolling (he says “bad aim” like a series of machine gun pops), but he also beats the absolute piss out of his low-quality webcam. He punches it, he slaps it, he picks up both of his flip-flopped (or bare) feet in a surprisingly nimble move and brings them crashing down, breaking it.

Jynxzi isn’t old enough to have been a gamer during the late aughts, but it feels like he’s in-character as the kid who shoved the remote up his ass. He plays Rainbox Six Siege with incredible precision on Xbox, with a controller. He rapidly pulls up the Xbox profiles of enemy players just to send them a voice note of his uncanny Joker impression. He reacts to viewer-submitted clips, which are often accompanied by a profile picture that’s a crude Photoshop of him in some unflattering manner—which always makes him punch his webcam, of course. He asks his mom to help him open up Rainbow Six packs, in the hope he’ll get an illusive Black Ice skin. It’s fascinating stuff, so low-brow it’s high.

If you’re gonna watch a Jynxzi stream, though, I’d recommend you lower your headphones.